Product-Line Engineering for Smart Manufacturing: A Systematic Mapping Study on Security Concepts

Richard May, Alen Alex, Rakky Suresh, Thomas Leich

2024

Abstract

The increasing configurability of smart manufacturing software systems introduces multiple attack vectors, mainly due to their system growing complexity. Although there is an ever-increasing risk for exploiting vulnerabilities caused by configuration-related issues in this context, there is currently no overview of current state-of-research on security within smart manufacturing software systems, especially those that are based on product-line engineering. To address this gap, we employed a systematic mapping study of 43 publications related to the intersection of security, smart manufacturing, and product-line engineering (2014--2023). Besides an overview of what properties have been researched, we identified nine literature gaps to create awareness of the current state-of-research and to guide future research. Overall, we highlight that there is a need for more research on (configurable) security concepts in PLE. Current approaches often address security as a separate (non-functional) requirement rather than integrating it into the PLE framework or mapping it to the unique properties of smart manufacturing. Concrete vulnerabilities, threats and risks, countermeasures and patterns are typically hardly described, which may have fatal consequences, especially in the context of configuration-related issues in cyber-physical systems.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

May R., Alex A., Suresh R. and Leich T. (2024). Product-Line Engineering for Smart Manufacturing: A Systematic Mapping Study on Security Concepts. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT; ISBN 978-989-758-706-1, SciTePress, pages 323-330. DOI: 10.5220/0012715400003753

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft24,
author={Richard May and Alen Alex and Rakky Suresh and Thomas Leich},
title={Product-Line Engineering for Smart Manufacturing: A Systematic Mapping Study on Security Concepts},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT},
year={2024},
pages={323-330},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012715400003753},
isbn={978-989-758-706-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT
TI - Product-Line Engineering for Smart Manufacturing: A Systematic Mapping Study on Security Concepts
SN - 978-989-758-706-1
AU - May R.
AU - Alex A.
AU - Suresh R.
AU - Leich T.
PY - 2024
SP - 323
EP - 330
DO - 10.5220/0012715400003753
PB - SciTePress